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DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A HARDWARE LEVEL CONTENT NETWORKING FRONT END DEVICE

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Date Issued:
2007
Abstract/Description:
The bandwidth and speed of network connections are continually increasing. The speed increase in network technology is set to soon outpace the speed increase in CMOS technology. This asymmetrical growth is beginning to causing software applications that once worked with then current levels of network traffic to flounder under the new high data rates. Processes that were once executed in software now have to be executed, partially if not wholly in hardware. One such application that could benefit from hardware implementation is high layer routing. By allowing a network device to peer into higher layers of the OSI model, the device can scan for viruses, provide higher quality-of-service (QoS), and efficiently route packets. This thesis proposes an architecture for a device that will utilize hardware-level string matching to distribute incoming requests for a server farm. The proposed architecture is implemented in VHDL, synthesized, and laid out on an Altera FPGA.
Title: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A HARDWARE LEVEL CONTENT NETWORKING FRONT END DEVICE.
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Name(s): Buboltz, Jeremy, Author
Kocak, Taskin, Committee Chair
University of Central Florida, Degree Grantor
Type of Resource: text
Date Issued: 2007
Publisher: University of Central Florida
Language(s): English
Abstract/Description: The bandwidth and speed of network connections are continually increasing. The speed increase in network technology is set to soon outpace the speed increase in CMOS technology. This asymmetrical growth is beginning to causing software applications that once worked with then current levels of network traffic to flounder under the new high data rates. Processes that were once executed in software now have to be executed, partially if not wholly in hardware. One such application that could benefit from hardware implementation is high layer routing. By allowing a network device to peer into higher layers of the OSI model, the device can scan for viruses, provide higher quality-of-service (QoS), and efficiently route packets. This thesis proposes an architecture for a device that will utilize hardware-level string matching to distribute incoming requests for a server farm. The proposed architecture is implemented in VHDL, synthesized, and laid out on an Altera FPGA.
Identifier: CFE0001888 (IID), ucf:47390 (fedora)
Note(s): 2007-12-01
M.S.Cp.E.
Engineering and Computer Science, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Masters
This record was generated from author submitted information.
Subject(s): Content Networking
Front End Device
Hardware Implementation
Persistent Link to This Record: http://purl.flvc.org/ucf/fd/CFE0001888
Restrictions on Access: campus 2008-12-04
Host Institution: UCF

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